Hiring a replacement for fired Ohio State University marching band director Jonathan Waters is taking longer than the school anticipated.
As of the end of February, the university has overshot the time frame of four to six months that it projected...

Ohio State University has plans to develop the eastern edge of its Columbus campus into an arts district.
The university started the process last week to hire architects and designers to develop plans for what officials hope will be a new "front door"...

This semester, Ohio State University bought two 3-D printers and spread a message across campus: For two months, students can make whatever they want on the printers for free.
It's partly an experiment for the people in charge of technology at Ohio...

Want to help your student do better on tests? Cut out the fast food.
Fast-food consumption isn't merely connected to increases in pants size — it's also tied to significant decreases in test scores among school children, according to a new...

Former Columbus Mayor Dana G. "Buck" Rinehart, who led the city through dramatic growth in the late 1980s, died of cancer Wednesday, his law partner said. He was 68.
Rinehart died surrounded by family, according to law partner Steve Cuckler. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2013.
The colorful, high-energy Republican was elected Columbus' 50th mayor in 1983 after serving as Franklin County treasurer and running unsuccessfully for state treasurer. He served two terms without running for a...

Years of driving from Venice to Encino in stop-and-go traffic on the 405 Freeway took a toll on Ken Elkinson. But the Venice resident, who works in insurance, didn't realize how much his stress was affecting him until his 4-year-old twins began gleefully repeating his road rage phrases, such as "Come on, grandma!" — profanity included.
"That was really, really not good," Elkinson said. "I knew something had to change."
Taking transit through the Sepulveda Pass would take four hours a day, on three...

Video games can be educational and inspirational.
Take the case of Nick Sabatini, a senior at Lincoln-Way Central High School in New Lenox. He played video games when he was young, and that is when a love for flight was first sparked, he said. Now he plans to study aerospace engineering when he heads off to college later this year.
"It was strange, but my love for engineering originated in video games and the technology behind them," said Sabatini, 18, who is taking two physics classes at the same...

Federal investigators looking into a fiery commuter train wreck that killed six people zeroed in Wednesday on what they called the big question on everyone's mind: Why was the driver of an SUV stopped on the tracks, between the lowered crossing gates?
A team from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived to examine the blackened and mangled wreckage and the Metro-North train's data recorders the morning after the rush-hour collision with the sport utility vehicle about 20 miles north of New...

New medical staff officers have been named at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey for 2015-16, according to a press release from Ingalls Health System.
Dr. Cressa Perish, a family practice physician, was elected president, while Dr. Carl Johnson, a general surgeon, was elected vice president, and internal medicine specialist Dr. Dorothy Jones was named secretary/treasurer, according to the health care provider.
Perish is the first female doctor to hold the position of president of the medical staff at...

I think we can all agree that the best way to deal with abusive bosses and managers is to round them up and ship them to a small island in the Pacific Ocean, preferably one populated by an unusually large number of hungry tigers.
Sadly, that method is logistically and legally complicated, and I personally would feel bad for the tigers.
So we look to more sensible ways of handling superiors who make our lives miserable.
Standing up to a bully seems the strongest approach, but it also sounds risky...